Just to add a little bit extra to post 20.
The only problem with an extra politics section ( and we did do Barrys Blog to hopefully catch some of the politics) is that very often on normal topics a politics situation will rear its head. Very often quite ordinary threads about almost anything can take a political direction...so rather than start deleting posts it's not possible to totally eliminate politics ..other than us becoming a kind of big brotherish organisation. Impossible to stop or monitor. We have hopefully improved the nastyish tit for tat..its now ordinary tit for tat
If I thought a Political Section would work.. well there is nothing really stopping us doing it...but it wouldnt eliminate ardinary everyday politics creeping in here and there..thats the point I'm making. We dont want people to be afraid to mention a political point halfway through a thread.